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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4247780" data-attributes="member: 58197">But Merlin wasn't a faun. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The way I see it, each of the D&D races has a core identity, defined by appearance and concept, which goes something like this:Humans: Humans.Elves: Forest-dwelling, graceful, good-looking guys.Dwarves: Short guys with an affinity for earth, stone, and metalworking.Halflings: Sneaky little guys.Eladrin: Good-looking magic guys.Tieflings: Devil-spawn with horns and tails.Dragonborn: Scaly reptile-guys with wings.The exact details vary, of course, but that's inevitable--even if you were sticking strictly to the mythological roots of each race, there are a hundred variations on elves and dwarves.  The thing is that the elf identity matches pretty well with the ljosalfar (though perhaps the fairies of British legend would be a better match), and the dwarven identity matches pretty well with the dvergar.  You can point to the dvergar and say, "That there is a dwarf."But the tiefling identity doesn't match with anything; bits of it match with this, and other bits with that, but as far as I know, there's nothing that you can point to in mythology and say, "That there is a tiefling."This is a debate about fluff.  I don't see what mechanics have to do with anything.  I can slap the tiefling mechanics on giant anthropomorphic weasels; so what?</blockquote>

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